Lewis Thompson Preston Quotes

Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Economic growth can enable development if it is supplemented by public policies that encourage circulation of wealth, especially into crucial areas such as public healthcare and education.

I am a liberal. I want everyone to be well.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

We have got to put a human face on the global economy.

Justice belongs to the people!

Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.

China is a developing country and we regard subsistence as the fundamental human right.

The social goals are the most difficult to achieve in the development of any country.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.